Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 2 | The private-sector contribution to these schemes was intended to be several times larger than that of the public sector . |
| 3 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 4 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 5 | When the body of one specimen was first brought from Australia to Britain in 1798 , it was considered to be some kind of taxidermist 's hoax — a mixture of bird and mammal — which , to some extent , it is . |
| 6 | Demographic and migration trends indicated that the rate of new household formation over the period of the structure plan ( i.e. until the mid-1990s ) was expected to be half of the post-war average levels and total population was likely to fall . |
| 7 | The Bettiscombe skull , preserved in the house at that time , was said to be that of a negro slave , so devoted to John Frederick that it emitted the most ghastly screams if it were ever parted from him . |
| 8 | His interest in witchcraft was said to be more than scholarly . |
| 9 | This time , however , she came by low loader rather than under her own steam and although it had been laid most expertly by BR staff , the track she was unloaded onto was several hundred yards from the nearest railway line . |
| 10 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 11 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 12 | It was going to be that sort of party . |
| 13 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 14 | They thought that it was going to be all easy . |
| 15 | But you 'd perhaps go three or four times before the baby was born and er just see everything was alright and you 'd know which way the baby was lying a and which way it was going to er you know come and if you thought there was going to be any problems well you know then you , you would sort of let the doctor know and , and he 'd decide then . |
| 16 | And I 'm sure a lot of times he had no idea what was going to come out , but he knew there was going to be some sort of feedback or something , so he 'd just play with it when it came . ’ |
| 17 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 18 | The evasive answers told her progress had been minimal , it was going to be some time before Emelda faced a press launch . |
| 19 | It was going to be some sort of a night for Mr Churchill and his friends , he mused . |
| 20 | I told you that there was going to be some available but |
| 21 | Now , just when she was bursting to talk to him about the job , he was going to be less than forthcoming . |
| 22 | Just because Hawks were going to go to Iran and I was wondering how many planes it was going to be this time . |
| 23 | ‘ But I did n't think it was going to be this . |
| 24 | I had every right to be if there was going to be this sort of hostility between the two of them all the way down into the ice . |
| 25 | Dad did say yesterday he had a surprise , but I did n't know it was going to be this — it 's great . ’ |
| 26 | Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day . |
| 27 | It looked as though it was going to be another fine day . |
| 28 | In November 1985 , when he had heard there was going to be another Israeli shipment to Iran , he called North . |
| 29 | It was going to be another unusually wind free day when islanders take the opportunity to tie down any loose facings and fencings before the furies of winter . |
| 30 | It was going to be another long , hot , tedious day with nothing to do . |